TAMIL lifestyle | lnguage & culture
Her Majesty’s Pleasure: being
incarcerated or put in prison.
“How’s Your Father?”:
euphemism for sex (Example:
“Have you and your wife had
any of the ol’ ‘How’s your
father?’ recently?”)
“I’m Off To Bedfordshire!”: “I’m
hitting the hay!”
“It’s Monkeys Outside!”: “Wow,
it’s very cold out!”
Knackered: phrase meaning
“extremely tired,” often uttered
after a long, exhausting day;
also see: “zonked.”
Knees Up: A term for a mixer
or a dance party (Example: “I
went to this wild knees up this
weekend. I wish you could have
been there.”)
Legless: totally, completely
hammered.
Lose The Plot: to go “crazy” or
become mentally unstable.
Lurgy: sick or under the
weather.
Made Redundant: to be fired or
let go from one’s position.
Minted: to be extremely rich.
Off One’s Trolley: mad, out of
one’s mind.
On The Piss: binge drinking
solely for the purpose of getting
totally smashed.
Pavement Pizza: euphemism for
puke or vomit.
“Pip pip!”: archaic, out-of-use
phrase used to say goodbye.
Plonk: a pejorative word used
to describe red wine of poor
quality, usually purchased at
little expensive.
Ponce: a poser.
Porkies: old Cockney rhyming
word used to mean “lies.”
(Example: If one is “telling
porkies,” you’re telling lies.)
Comes from “pork pies,” which
rhymes with lies.
Puff: a fart.
See A Man About a Dog: what
you say as an excuse for
leaving, in order to hide your
destination; also, to excuse
oneself to take a giant shit.
Shambolic: in a total state of
bedlam, chaos or dismay.
Shirty: ill-tempered, insolent.
Skive: a character deemed
particularly lazy or incapable of
being of use.
Slap And Tickle: making out or
heavy petting.
Spend A Penny: to use the
restroom.
did you
know?
The most commonly used
letter in the alphabet is E
The least used letter in the
alphabet is Q
The sentence “the quick
brown fox jumps over the
lazy dog” uses every letter
in the English alphabet
The word ‘rhythm’ is the
longest word without a
vowel
The letter W is the only
letter in the alphabet that
has 3 syllables
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